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additional opportunity for russian companies because surveys in many many years centuries speak it very good relationships between iran as a country and russia as a country and so you know even by us and now is there is a good chance to start to mutual cooperation between samples. for all the pieces left under u.s. sanctions he says the kremlin has encouraged companies to seek out iranian business partners characterizing sanctions as temporary complications but many iranians may say u.s. sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to be to more hardship. the old easier to her own. iranian foreign minister jevons that he for spoken exclusively exclusively to exit he says iranian oil will keep flying abroad despite u.s. sanctions first world these countries have declared that they do not recognize u.s. sanctions that has put their private companies may because of u.s.
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quotas and because of their heavy hand that the united states is exercising on these issues may find it just prudent for themselves in the short term and i don't think it's prudent for anybody in the medium and long term to be creased but that doesn't mean that the governments agree and the governments have announced that they do not recognize and you can watch the full interview with the iranian foreign minister zarif on talk to edges either at four thirty g.m.t. this saturday. in uganda bobby wine is back home after three nights in prison the pop star turned politician was granted bail after arrest for incitement winds accused of encouraging an attack on the president's motorcade the supporters say the charges are made up we spoke to him earlier in camp hala. we have gone to every legal avenue trying to get our freedom are we are free to show in the court
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we are going to parliament and all the rizzoli sions all the pronouncements of parliament have been disrespected are the terms it's going to court our cases have not been hard and we have resolved resorted to another constitutional means of airing our voices of dissatisfaction and that is protest because it is provided for in our constitution as particle twenty nine so whatever we are doing is within the law and even our protest against injustice against police brutality and against impunity is justified as by the law however the police and old security organs of continued to break the law and to crack down brutally on the peaceful citizens. all right plenty more ahead on this news hour a grand council convened by afghanistan's president ends with a resoundingly call for peace with the taliban. and the philadelphia seventy six is unleashed their star man to take it to one lead over toronto in the n.b.a.
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playoffs peter will be here with more in sport. to come but first mass protests continue in sudan where demonstrators have stage what they called a million strong march to press for civilian rule for test leaders say the military is not serious about handing over power the two sides have agreed on forming a joint civilian military council to run the country but conduct gree on its composition how madonna is in khartoum following the story for us so. what's happening there right now how big are these protests from what you see. when i was in were sticking where we're seeing so many people arriving here they are coming from all parts of saddam we're seeing the numbers of protesters increasing by the polls most of them ah i'm happy about the deadlock in talks
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between those who are organizing the protests as well as the transitional military council with the organizers of the poultice accusing the military of moping. on hunting all the power to a civilian administration of course there are folks. that have been put on their way to try and break the deadlock one of them is bank left by a prominent sudan these. you know. who've been put together sort of called bt to mediate between the two sides to african union else also described as special and. but how much old how some glove boxes from zero to ten year on he's in the country talking to both sides now. while also if it's not going on the protesters are saying both they would not have any leverage else
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long as the protests going on. there will continue of the protests until they get what they have come here for which is a hondo evolved from the military to a civilian council all civilian but george it's a council and if the military are kind of waiting this out and hoping that these protests will eventually run out of steam. today's demonstration would would indicate quite the opposite wouldn't. while for the protesters they say they know of all option but to continue staying in these cool well you know come be in them numbers we've been seeing protests this coming from places us flaws food and nuba mountains calling for justice for some of the people killed in what they're calling a comes against humanity committed by that idiom of a modern arsenal bashir but also these people ah very odd
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a month is saying that full of them ah ha thought it lucian it's not an option on doubt will spell the death of saddam so they will continue this process and if need be of and take it up brought to the embassies of countries they perceive to be behind giving a lot of support to the transitional military council like the u.a.e. and so doubt it b.-a one of the things they're saying is that a general strike will shut down the anti is saddam is also on the cards. all right mohammed atta live for us there in khartoum thanks mom. russia's foreign minister will meet the u.s. secretary of state next week for more talks on the venezuela crisis the u.s. has accused the russians of destabilizing venezuela the u.s. backs opposition leader russia continues to support socialist president nicolas maduro he was alongside military leaders on thursday in
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a show of strength days after the failed overthrow attempt earlier this year. the spanish government says it will not hand over an opposition politician who's taken refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas pulled on lopez fled there earlier this week after the attempted uprising venezuela's highest court issued an arrest warrant saying he violated house arrest order spain's acting foreign minister also says he won't be granted asylum. leave spain will not permit its embassy to be converted into a center of political activity by mr lopez or anyone else here has not asked for political asylum because according to our legislation you must request it while being in spanish territory. substory force now from on the venezuela colombia border side asunder firstly how significant is this us russian meeting. i think it could be very
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significant significant and definitely there's a lot of expectation for it this is the first time that the sides will meet face to face on this issue it comes at a crucial time after this attempt failed attempt by the opposition to overthrow. it comes also after a very tense phone conversation between pale and lover of doing this. during the protests as your position supporters were clashing with the venezuelan government forces and there is a growing feeling inside. that. russian the u.s. are really the ones who could try to break this stalemate inside the country that this solution can come from inside the venezuela but my come from outside if the u.s.
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and russia could reach some sort of grand bargain and the question of course there is what kind. the geopolitical incentives the u.s. could offer russia for them to decide and drop my doodle of course this is speculation at this point it's speaking to people there in that are closely watching venezuela and they are close to both sides the government side and the opposition side this is what we're hearing the fact that the international pressure is becoming more and more important that maybe a solution could come from there. and one of the next steps then for the opposition in venezuela after this failed attempt to unseat him would do it. well yes in the meantime we heard from the leader of the opposition the man that the united states and number of countries both in latin america and europe recognize as the legitimate interim leader president of venezuela what
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he is saying is to maintain the pressure to more demonstrations more rallies more more protests he's trying to organize rolling strikes in different sectors. in coming days the next action will be on saturday where he has called his supporters to stage peaceful demonstrations in front of military bases military installations across venezuela what they are trying to do of course is to convince a larger amount of soldiers and possibly commanders to turn their backs on my daughter we'll have to see how that happens what happens then on saturday that will be the next key moment in this struggle for power and so i've been it's well on a sunday to thank you. erin. the united nations is accusing hungary of
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deliberately depriving rejected asylum seekers of food as they wait for deportation u.n. human rights office says since last august at least twenty one refugees were not given food some for up to five days they called on hunger in authorities to stop the practice accusing them of breaching international law it comes a day after prime minister viktor orban and italy's interior minister visited the border fence with serbia that was built in twenty fifteen to stop illegal crossings the president of afghanistan has accepted several recommendations for peace talks with the taliban on the final day of the loya jirga assembly of regional elders. approved looking for an immediate cease fire and the withdrawal of u.s. troops he's ordered the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners shala bella's has more from kabul. president danny has agreed to all the recommendations in the loya jirga more than three thousand participants have met for the last five days in the white building behind me coming up with what is important to them as
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representatives of the afghan people what positions do they want the afghan government to take in future negotiations with the taliban prisoners all of the recommendations directly address the taliban in his in his speech in the closing ceremony this morning saying we have fought for far too long sometimes we have won sometimes you have won in the meantime our people have suffered so going forward he said that he will accept that there needs to be interest and tweaks it is now an afghan government position that the u.s. troops should withdraw that they should be a ceasefire as soon as possible that the taliban should open a political office in kabul or a city of their choosing as long as it's in afghanistan and they should be moved from door where currently is that any legal demands of the taliban should be accepted during negotiations and that there should be a person of swap so this started to come out of the committees yesterday that this was something that was important to them and saying that he did agree that taliban
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prisoners should be released from afghan government trails and vice versa and he said he's already started that agreeing and ordering the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners from afghan government jails he said i'm willing to do this wherever the taliban would like i just want to hand over their prisoners with honor and dignity he said that it should be a trust building measure and that he hopes that the taliban reciprocate with a similar similar gesture during the muslim holy month of ramadan meanwhile u.s. and the taliban amazing is the sixth round of negotiations the last time they met was about six weeks ago where they discussed the first two steps and what is a have a four point to go between the parties the first two steps being that there should be a foreign troop withdrawal and the second state being that the taliban shouldn't allow afghanistan to be you. as a staging ground for attacks on foreign soil now they did get through the majority of those negotiations six weeks ago this is some logistics to sort out which is why the now how with we believe that they have
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a sticking point over the name of the taliban if it's to formalize these first two steps they would not be agreement but the taliban want to be referred to as the islamic emirate of afghanistan which was their name when they were in power the u.s. saying we cannot refer to you as that in this agreement because that would mean that we are negotiating with a foreign government and that would undermine the current afghan government in kabul we understand they are meeting again tomorrow in doha where they hope to try to push past the sticking point. still ahead on edges in a cold for britain's prime minister to step down growing louder after the main parties are hit by a break sit backlash in local elections. and clamping down on hate speech facebook banned several far right voices. and late and smaller pizza coloring is cut short we'll tell you how a plant's assigned line long distance race is affecting athletes in kenya.
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hello again we're here cross along we are watching plenty of rain here across parts of turkey not just a weather system that is moving here across the area into the caspian that's going to bring a lot of rain across turkey but cool your rain is going to continue from saturday into sunday but down towards the self you're going to be seeing mostly cloudy conditions at least on saturday by the time we get to sunday though that system really begins to dissipate we're going to see will still more clouds but for tehran you may see a little bit of rain with the temperature there of twenty seven degrees well here across the gulf we have been dealing with the heat that's going to continue its been fairly dry but we do expect to see clouds pushing through now the problem is from saturday night into sunday we could also pick up a shower or two here in doha as that little system pushes across the gulf for abu dhabi here on saturday at thirty four degrees there by the time we get to sunday it
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is going to be about thirty five where across much of southern africa not much in terms of rain a lot of the rain has now moved up here towards the north we are picking up quite a few clouds down here towards the south though so for cape town mostly cloudy conditions a day team cause for durban as well but plenty of sun for johannesburg at twenty five degrees by the time we get to sunday though that temperature is going to be dropping down to about twenty two but over here towards many gas carol we are looking at almost wall to wall sunshine from north to south the temperature of twenty five. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated perspectives american media coverage what part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the
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american mind on al-jazeera. al-jazeera as their want us to always breaks but it's also good to see what happens next. on the fired by the barriers for a model barricade of all the seven streets that b.b.q. here the movies now is what about change people have gone all still here beriah the mission of the national army is just sixteen tie up the oil company x. i'll just do a stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. but again you're watching i just need
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a reminder of our top stories this hour the most powerful cycling twenty years as pummeled india's east coast a category three forney has killed at least three people flattened buildings and forced hundreds of thousands to leave their homes. the u.s. secretary of state and russia's foreign minister will hold talks on venezuela in finland next week the u.s. strongly backs the opposition was russia supports president nicolas maduro he appeared on t.v. alongside his top. days after what he called an attempted coup. the united states is ramping up pressure on iran's energy exports it is ending sanction weightless that allowed some of its key trading partners to keep buying new brands with china and turn to define those two months. or more now on the u.s. attempt to impose sanctions on countries buying oil from iran steven rogers is a member of the donald trump for president advisory board he joins us live now from
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new jersey good to have you with us again. thank you very much so i want to ask you first of all. as we met as we mentioned earlier china india south korea turkey and japan collectively important around one million barrels a day of oil from iran. particularly in the case of china with whom to us is conducting some delicate trade negotiations right now to avoid a bigot trade war. has the trumpet ministration really thought this through have they have they thought through the consequences of this while i believe the president has got through the consequences i also believe that there is enough confidence with his administration that he will be able to settle the differences of opinion with china and with other countries that are somewhat
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resistant to his policy keep in mind that the president has made many many breakthroughs with foreign countries regarding the economy and economic policies so yes they have thought it through and let us not forget he is known as the great negotiator and he has fulfilled his reputation very well what examples can you draw on where he succeeded in in these negotiations. well when i say succeeded in the goshi ations with foreign leaders i could certainly point to what he has done with our nato allies he got a lot of criticism and pushback with regard to his demands that the nato allies pay their fair share with regard to defense he certainly is working very well with other countries in reference to economic policies indeed there are
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issues that must be discussed but we're all looking for one thing at least i don't speak for the president but i know he's looking to bring stability to the region in the mideast and the way you bring stability is the iran to the table this is all about iran changing their behavior what's the ability does he bring when when he rips up international agreements that were previously a negotiated when all of the other pollen is in that agreement have said they will continue to abide by it i'm talking of course about the iran nuclear agreement. and you talk about the default iran secant to come to the negotiating table they came to the negotiating table as a result of sanctions and the result of that was the iran nuclear agreement that restricts the country's nuclear activities. the
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deal was bad it was bad from the beginning the iranians why was it led they talk about sitting at a negotiation it's bad because there has been really no checks on their nuclear capabilities look their war in the cording to the old deal they're giving fourteen fifteen days notice or more that the u.n. inspectors or whoever is coming to inspect it's a sham it's it's something that has to be renegotiated it has to benefit everyone so the deal was banned the american people never a light the deal so the president made it very clear that he would look out for the american people look out for our national security and that deal does nothing to enhance our national security or frankly the security of that region let's get back to the practicality decision by the u.s.
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to to stop waivers for these countries if some of these countries like china like turkey which of this point have not given any indication that they will abide by this if they continue to trade with iran and buy oil from them what's the u.s. going to do i mean it's going to get hard for them to for example take action against against private private tankas in the oceans that a foreign flag i mean that's that's going to cause all sort of all sorts of diplomatic issues isn't it. well i cannot predict or speculate what the administration would do with regard to continued resistance to u.s. policy but we can only rely on the negotiating skills of the president and his administration and hope that we don't go down that road we cannot predict what will take place based on speculation look anything could happen but it is
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pretty clear that the administration wants to see peace in the region look this is all about the middle east the administration wants to see everyone cooperating with each other and keep in mind that a lot of these world leaders say that they are opposed to terrorist activity there are opposed to terrorism being exported around the world and iran happens to be a leader in the exportation of terrorist activity so perhaps what the president's trying to do is say you know put your money where your mouth is and let's support the effort to put an end to their terrorist activity and to change their behavior good to speak with us steven rogers joining us stephanie just. our braise it backlash is being blamed after britain's two main parties suffered significant losses in local elections voters in england had their say for the first time since
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britain failed to leave the european union the in barber has the latest from london thank you everybody why did you resign. under pressure like never before to resume his conservative party was braced for a bad result in the local elections but it's fared worse than many predicted and that in large part can be explained by frustrations over bricks it i think there was a simple message from yesterday's elections to both us and the labor party just get it all and to mr bracks it i dozens of people have shared photos of their spoiled ballots on social media most wrote messages demanding bricks straight away although some ballot box protesters were anti bricks it labor has also struggled losing seats amid confusion over the opposition party's bricks at position leader jeremy corbett was putting a positive gloss on the results we always want to do better and that's why we're in politics for that's what weeks and simple we have in the campaign and continue to
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train people and bring people together in go see a great city but also do you suppose you should have a simple forward then we can actually feels with. the liberals and. if anyone's unambiguously happy it's the liberal democrats as one of the clearly anti bricks at parties along with the greens who also performed well the done better than they could have expected this story across the country. you know the lib dems were it not for one point that we came back very very strongly with the big winners of the night the real litmus test nationally could come when the brics it policy the new policy headed by former ukip leader nigel for raj and the anti brics it changed u.k. policy field candidates in this month's european elections. the prime minister and her polity are in trouble and it could get worse because the brics it policy and ukip will be out in force for the forthcoming european parliament elections but the
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labor party could also find itself licking its wounds once again as bricks it continues to cost a shadow over british politics al-jazeera london. uncertainty has also been on voters' minds in northern ireland particularly the future of the border with the republic of ireland a major sticking point in the u.k. c.e.u. withdrawal andrew symonds joins us now from bellport faso andrew the whole issue of the border there a very contentious one when it comes to braise it how is that been reflected in local election results there. will brics it is certainly a factor but it's much more clear cut in the political sense here because each party has a clear policy either remain or leave and so there isn't the mix the merge the there's the real merge of views and tensions that you see in england you haven't
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seen a backlash backlash so far with results although we only have just over twenty percent in so far there has been one really interesting factor which doesn't just relate to bricks it it's a pro remain party it's across community party which is an interesting factor here it is both protestant and catholic and it's called the alliance party they're making gains this is early days it has to be said but this is cross community politics and there is such a lot going for that it would seem amongst many many viewpoints particularly the human rights viewpoints because so many people feel that the entrenched what is described by many as tribal politics of northern ireland is far too profound but it's the a unionists the largest party and shin fein coming just behind d u p and shin fein they haven't suffered any major upset so far it looks to be fairly
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predictable but it doesn't look quite as a violent stand and i actually. expect to get a bigger share of votes at this stage in the game but that doesn't seem to be happening but early days we went out to county to rome in an area near the border to assess the mood. tranquility for now yes but this is north of islands border with the irish republic could heighten the risk of more on rest and possible violence if there was a border with customs police checks. many festering issues in the local elections but there's something new going on and one of those. i've only ever lived in a peaceful country this young politician is a protestant in a mainly catholic nationalist party the s.d.l. p. enthusiasm i don't love. the past
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and i don't. need to be constantly reminded of the violence and things that often separate us is from where twenty nine people were killed by a car bomb in one thousand nine hundred eight before he was born this is of republicans were responsible now two decades on of course no one could forget the devastation of the bomb but what's really striking about these new generation politicians is their willingness to put them to one side while concentrating on really developing what they call cross community politics. far away and. more is twenty born after the good friday peace agreement we have been sort of gifted a piece which didn't previously exist dysfunction in our politics our government hasn't been working for a couple of years and the peace process is at a pretty low ebb at the minute. it represents the alliance party it wants to
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overcome termed tribal politics the mainstream parties republicans and unionists. a few glances at some parts of belfast tell you how divided protestant and catholic still remain particularly in poor areas physical divisions stays in place there's segregated public housing and segregated education as long as kids go to different schools as long as we go to different churches as long as that. sick bigotry nonsense is fed to children at their mother's nice this place will not change very much. apart from the kids who get out a look back but don't come back that tell them they don't come back. scott and others like him insist they'll carry on their push even though it's
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against the odds. radical political change here could be at least one more generation away. there's another important aspect to this which may explain why the alliance policy of the middle of the road cross community party is making gains and that is the warning by a catholic priest aimed at all politicians every party including the the british prime minister of the irish t. shirt was present at the funeral of a young woman journalist who had been shot dead at the dissident ira group breakaway are a great great group called the real ira had said it was a mistake she died and as a result a lot of people were pushing hard wanting politicians to explain why for two years the two main parties the devolve power sharing a been astray should and has not been acting at all it's been defunct there has
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been a major push on to try to get the executive back in place back involved in institutions involved in ordinary political life another british and irish governments of pushing them to the table they will be talking next tuesday trying to get a resolution as to all variety of issues that are dividing them is that window dressing political window dressing after the death of of lariam a key that is not a certain position but there is pressure on the politicians pressure on the main two parties that do you in shin fein to get that devolved government working again the power sharing government working again sooner rather than later andrew symonds live for us in belfast thanks how the king of thailand will finally be crowned on saturday two and a half years after becoming monic king a modern long corn or rama ten paid homage to his ancestors as part of the preparations for the coronation ceremony sixty six year old succeeded his father
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king a woolly ball who reigned for seventy years. a woman jailed for the murder of the north korean leader's half brother is now free and back home in vietnam do one te hong rived in hanoi after spending more than two years in a malaysian prison she's one of the two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong nam at kuala lumpur's airport two years ago one was convicted last month on a lesser charge of causing injury after prosecutors dropped the murder charge are some of the highest profile of far right voices in the u.s. have been kicked off facebook and instagram social media giant announced the ban as it comes under growing pressure to curb hate speech rob reynolds reports. facebook and instagram have permanently banned several prominent far right anti-semitic and anti muslim provocateur tumor's there is a concerted a social media empire you can't counts of radio host alex jones conspiracy
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theorists who claims mass shootings like the one at a high school in parklane florida last year where seventeen died were faked by the government. gone to his laura loom or a prolific skewer of anti muslim diatribes and false conspiracy theories visitors to loom or his facebook page on thursday found this no more facebook or instagram for milo you novelis former writer for the conservative breitbart news site who's been closely associated with neo nazi and white supremacist figures and often ridicules feminism islam and social justice movements louis farrakhan the eighty five year old leader of the us black nationalist group nation of islam was also removed he was banned earlier from youtube for comparing jews to insects the company cited facebook's policies against dangerous individuals and organizations
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in a statement facebook said we've always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate regardless of idiology adding that it has an extensive process for evaluating potential by a later years among its two point seven billion members facebook instagram and other social media platforms have been heavily criticized in the u.s. and internationally for failing to police hate speech in turn facebook had mark zuckerberg has called on governments and international regulators to become more active in policing online hate and calls for violence later this month new zealand prime. mr just. french president emanuel will convene an international meeting aimed at preventing violent hate crimes from being shown on line and curbing
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inflammatory calls for violence. los angeles more than a sport is still ahead on. time and the richardson in world and olympic champion cast the same man yet is getting ready to run what could be the last eight hundred meter.
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all right skittles going to his pizza as in thank you very much costa semenya will run what could be her last eight hundred metres race in just over an hour's time
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the south african runner is in doha for the diamond league meeting on wednesday she lost a case against his stuff thrown rules due to be imposed by athletics governing body the i.w.a. if with the new regulations kicking in on the eighth of may the feature of semenya and others like it is unclear. and the richardson is at that event in doha and joins us live now and the how well or not so well have the i.w. have handled the situation. well it wasn't exactly a master class in diplomacy on thursday that was when sebastian coe the head of world athletics addressed the media here in dakar ahead of the diamond league the start of the new track and field season he only took two questions on the same man you only answered one of them in full and described the ruling by the court of arbitration for sport as straightforward not as a number of ways you could look at that ruling but really straightforward isn't one of them it was a split decision between the arbitration panel of three judges and it was
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a ruling sprinkled with caviar and concerns about how exactly it should be implemented what card did want to talk about was his desire to expand the appeal of track and field in athletics and expand the appeal of the diamond league outside of elin peak years in caster semenya it has an athlete really who does just that she transcends sports she is a role model for many in the way she is faults or prejudice and discrimination she is. such an example for others around the globe with a difference in sexual development and of course she's a fantastic athlete she's won two olympic gold medals and three world championship gold medals she's issued a number of tweets on social media over the last forty eight hours hinting at possible retirement hinting at possibly walking away from the sport and at the moment the i w f seem not to be in the mood to try and dissuade her and the dough hole also hosts the world of linux championship since september how the preparations coming along for a better event. well this is the stadium where it will be hosted it's the first
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time the advances ever come to the middle east and really underlines the door is becoming a sensor for world sport of course the world cup coming here the football world cup coming here in twenty twenty two and this remodeled stadium behind me here will also be used for the sort of reopened in twenty seventeen it's been expanded to house forty thousand people also in evidence tonight the air cooling technology it's about over thirty degrees outside the stadium here inside the stadium it's around twenty six degrees that won't be quite so important during the world cup that is being held in november december when the temperatures are relatively cool but it will be important for the world championships coming up in september october some concerns about events like the marathon which will be held outside of the stadium and the richardson thank you very much. another development of the diamond league could affect the future of generations of athletes the. five and ten
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thousand meter events which are dominated by east africans catherine sawyer travelled to the high altitude training camps in kenya as rift valley to find out how it could affect a deep rooted culture of long distance running. caroline chip crew will defend her three thousand meter title at the dam on track and field competition. she's one of kenya's top athletes and says her biggest competitors will be two other kenyans who. she's been training in the ten in the rift valley says she prefers the five thousand metres race but that event along with the ten thousand is being faced out from twenty twenty and in competitions where organizers do decide to include the race it will not be televised the international association of athletics federations wants to make the down one more marketable and believes longer races slow things down. it's bad what they've done i had specialized in five thousand but i've had to retrain for other disciplines like three thousand i'm
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worried about upcoming athletes who use this is a springboard for the big road races. this is bad news for east africa the five in ten thousand races are dominated by kenyans if you peons and ugandans and a majority of young athletes in kenya train for five thousand. he larry is trying to make it big internationally he's working on the stymies and insurance union and . it's an unfair decision i feel they are trying to get tailless because we've been dominating the competition kenyan athletes are so strong we come back with many medals and i don't see any valid reason why they would want to do away with this race. sports analysts are worried the move will badly affect jancis of runners who mostly depend on such races for leaving it gives. you know their different. organizations or companies or they have endorsements with
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running companies and you know. and i do drinks and so on the fact that you're not seen on t.v. a global audience is a big blow. for now most of these are clips back in the ten would be cheering on those three presenting them in doha while at the same time this ports governing body to vesa decision they see real hot thousands of them catching saw al jazeera ten western kenya. the philadelphia seventy six ers went to one up in the n.b.a. playoff series against the toronto raptors thanks to a star performance from joel embiid the raptors co i learned was the stand he seen with thirty three points but he was struggling on his own as the seventy six ers took a twenty six point lead and then beating was simply too good for the toronto defense you also have thirty three points and put down a big mark in these playoffs as fully go for their first title since nineteen eighty three you have the home court rocking with this play final score one hundred sixteen ninety five to philadelphia. to the n.h.l.
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playoffs on the boston bruins level the series against the columbus blue jackets on tuesday columbus had been hoping to go three want to head but ended up taking something of a big thing on home ice patrice bergeron schooled two of the boston goals as they have the from. back defeats in this eastern conference semifinal it ended for one for the bruins so they tie the series up. so to each between the colorado avalanche and center as a shocks avalanche winning verse one three nothing the western conference say it's . the slice of golfing is three at the china open in shenzhen on friday kwan yang just fourteen years old fourteen years six months and twelve days to be exact he became the youngest player to make the cut at a european two event outside the majors his practice time for this tournament was reduced as he was taking his midterm exams at high school. where i go wrong in my
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ramps up its plan to choke off iran's energy exports ending sanction wave which had allowed some countries to buy its oil. oh. the protesters back in big numbers in sudan as the standoff with the military continues how to bring in civilian rule bus. whatever they're doing is not out of. extreme. release from prison ugandan rapper turned politician bobby wind vows to fight on against the government he says is panicking. but are cycling for any battering the east coast of india the most powerful there in twenty years it's killed at least three people in odisha state one and a quarter million indians have left their homes to look for higher ground scott hyla has more from new delhi. with one hundred eighty kilometer per hour winds
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cycling funny slammed ashore in the distance states in eastern the zero south. twenty first made landfall friday morning near the coastal city of putting a holy place for hindu time zone with the result the rain has stopped since early morning it's a very strong storm the trees have been uprooted roads are closed there is no electricity the rain has caused my house to flood. we're going to call it this is worse than the one thousand nine hundred nine storm i feel scared to be at home or to go outside i fear we might be blown away if we go out. the strong side close as expected to move north through and weaken as it hits west bengal and my colleague state event head to bangladesh. a big concern as coastal storm surges and resultant flooding about a million people have been evacuated india's navy air force and disaster response force are on standby. airports and schools were closed before the storm hit
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funny is the most serious cyclon for the region in twenty years in one nine hundred ninety nine a super cycle devastated and killed ten thousand people across the state. the coast of a state is prone to cycle and storm surge and tsunamis in banquets and shelters have been built over the last seven years before he will be the first test of how they stand up to a powerful cycle. got harder al-jazeera new delhi. is directed general for the national disaster response force india he says they did everything they could to be ready. preparations started to very well in advance of what partially because. the indian metrological department gave us a very good lead time and in the predictions we almost got a week by which we knew. the place of landing the wind speed at landing
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and exactly the time of landing so that gave us the scope to prepare weather and i think the preparations were well done in advance and the federal government also gave disaster relief funds to the concern states of what he's under for this and was being all well in advance so that they can prepare for the relief right after the storm passes so all this preparation was of course in sync with the requirement of the extra forces which was from the india out of sight of which are in the deep and we have placed nearly four thousand. armed with spectacle equipment and aborts etc to the states of what is and under positioned and best thing though of course would you size taken the brunt and there one of the important steps taken was to evacuate more than a million people well in time so that they call them out of the impact zones and
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most of these people would have probably been living in mud and touched roof houses and they came out of the danger zone and that probably has saved the day for us. the u.s. government has put an end to waivers which had allowed eight countries to continue buying iranian oil they include china india and turkey will now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they don't stop crude imports from the islamic republic iranian oil sales have already fallen by hoff's since the us pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal zain was ravi as more from tehran. hours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions and welcomed an important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful public nations no matter this a comes to us says we hope all of that but it has to get done what divides us but
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when the united states reimposed sections it granted waivers to some of iran's biggest customers ending those waivers and iran supply means prices at the pump are likely to rise to address suggestions by u.s. president donald trump that some opec members namely saudi arabia and the united arab emirates might increase production to make up for iranian oil not making it to market it's probably potentially more dangerous to the very existence of the organization not to talk of that but does it with all of that is. the morse to do for this organization to saw its seeds of discord. to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took decisions let alone implemented to get a meeting to meet market demand has been an important part of how iran has kept
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selling oil and coped with us sanctions china turkey and iraq have also said they cannot abide by unilateral american policies and will continue dealing with iran if pushed iran could obstruct shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and restart your brain human richmond none are things iranian leaders say they actually want to do but there is little doubt the country is hurting a crippled economy soaring prices runaway inflation iranians worry it could mean taxes going up and subsidies on fuel electricity and consumer goods going down last year this conference had even more buzz and even bigger exhibits and there was a little more excitement in the air about doing business but that was before the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and really impose sanctions one russian chief executive said u.s. sanctions are exactly why russia wants to do even more business with iran but that's why they're here. so close you know it may be no it's for sure and it will
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be educational opportunity for russian companies because surveys in many many years since there is we get very good relationships between iran as a country and russia as a country and so he union even vice and now is there is a good chance to start to mutual cooperation between companies. for the business level under u.s. sanctions he says the kremlin has encouraged companies to seek out iranian business partners characterizing sanctions as temporary complications but many iranians may say u.s. sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to lead to more hardship zain busser of the old a zero to one. oh never has felt threatened over the years iran has warned it would shut down the strait of hormuz a transit point for a fifth of the world's oil this could force prices to one hundred dollars or more
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per barrel that would shave is zero point six percent of the world's economic growth and inflation may rise by about zero point seven percent the us is also paying a price americans have already been paying seven percent more for petrol this month and between one thousand nine hundred five and twenty twelve the us missed out on around one hundred seventy five billion dollars worth of export revenues it could have made from iran had the country's not cut off ties in one thousand nine hundred that amounts to sixty six thousand job opportunities lost each year i do see it as economics editor says the u.s. is making a very risky strategic gamble. relying on the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to cover the oil that's going to be missing from iran the problem is that we have other events we have a group of nations called the shaky six which includes venezuela libya. algeria
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who basically have a troubled economies troubled political situations right this very moment and should they reduce the amount of oil that they are putting up this very moment in time that could lead to an increase in oil prices now if iran was to blockade the straits of news you know or the prices could go well above one hundred dollars a barrel and that would transmit to u.s. consumers at some point and that they would be pay more at the at the at the gas stations now once that happens they're already overstretched because their credit cards are in a fully fully maxed out and stuff so they would find even more difficult to buy u.s. products themselves and that would impact on the on their economy and it is the world's biggest economy and everybody really good eyes on the u.s. to be functioning at full pace for them to have a better economic situation the white house though it says there is plenty of oil.
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despite what these mowers are saying. terrorism was a man despite that prices are going down wright's going down we're oversupply with oil in the u.s. story is just unbelievable now is it change the economics of energy or oil natural gas and what that is change strategic assumptions to. our white house correspondent kimberly how kit has more. well the ending of the waivers is just the latest in a long campaign by the trusted ministration to exert what it calls maximum pressure on iran donald trump very clear that his desire is to get iran's oil exports to zero why because the united states believes that this is how iran funds what it calls a sort of broader destabilizing activities in the wider middle east now this is a concern for many in washington as well as around the world because there is the fear that some of the more hardline or hawkish members of the trunk administration
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like secretary of state mike peo national security advisor john bolton appear to be pushing for regime change in iran something that this administration denies it says is simply standing with the people of iran but we know that this could put a severe shock on the iranian economy potentially getting people to spill into the streets and potentially turning on their government that appears to be perhaps one of the goals of the united states but at the same time there is a fear of another impact and that is that iran could lash out militarily the united states then claiming that it had to in some way assist in some sort of retaliation campaign it appears that some of the again the more hawkish members of the trumpet ministration may be winning over in terms of an aggressive strategy and perhaps even militant foreign policy towards iran iranian foreign minister john spank an issue.

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